Outside the Beltway

Vice-President Cheney’s amoral defense of torture has come to define how most conservatives view the issue, and that’s a problem.

Back to the Ten Commandments and Alabama politics.

Rush Limbaugh is still really, really angry about subsidized birth control. And lots of other stuff.

Could a transcription error be changing our understanding of America’s founding document?

The “Founders” founded a government and the “Framers” were framing the basic structure thereof. This should be obvious.

Only a tiny percentage of those in American prisons ever got a trial.

Can differences in media coverage of two unrelated filibusters be explained solely by media bias?

Contemporary Americans accept actions by the state that were once the cause for revolt.

Yesterday’s coup in Egypt, a day before we celebrate our own independence, reminds us of something else worth celebrating.

Rather than asking whether it was “worth it,” the important historical question regarding the Civil War is whether it could have been avoided.

Vilifying Thomas Jefferson is as much as mistake as placing him on a pedestal.

The GOP Platform will include an abortion plank that Todd Akin would love.

Victor Davis Hanson thinks President Obama plans to win the back the White House by alienating the white man.

What does the US Constitution actually provide in terms of guidance for governance?

Were the Colonists wrong to toss aside the British Empire so casually?

There may be only one solution to saving the Euro.

If we taught the Federalist Papers more rigorously would that lead to a shared view of the constitution?

It would be nice if people in power would be a bit more introspective and thoughtful.

The race is over, Rick Santorum just won’t admit it.

The White House and its allies have already declared war on a decision that won’t even be rendered until three months from now.

Rick Santorum’s views on the role of religion in public life are built on lies about American history.

A man who has three degrees from three public universities considers the President of the United States a “snob.”

A Selection Of Speaker Gingrich’s Thoughts Over The Years

Measuring our progress a decade after the 9/11 attacks

Michele Bachmann’s view of history is based in a world view that would be foreign to most Americans.

Usually, Defendants plead guilty for perfectly rational reasons.

Some thoughts on the American experiment at 235 years and counting.

Bachmann’s views on the Founders and slavery are more significant than simply a question of how to classify John Quincy Adams.

Bachmann doubles-down on a problematic historical claim.

Herman Cain: candidate du jour or something more permanent?

While President Obama has had some amusing gaffes on his trip to London, including getting the year wrong in the guest book and an awkward toast to the Queen, his speech to Parliament today hit all the right notes.

Another survey shows that Americans don’t know much about their own history, but does it really matter?

Examining Levin’s examination of the Constitution, jurisprudence, and property rights.

In chapter three of Liberty and Tyranny, Mark Levin applies his typical standards of logic and evidence to matters of faith.

Part two of the ongoing series blogging Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny.

I’m blogging Mark Levin’s Conservative Manifesto. Here’s part one…

Revisiting the application of the Declaration.

Is it really too much to ask that when people try to make arguments based on our country’s founding documents that they at least understand the passages that they are quoting?

Thomas Jefferson took great pains to hide the word he originally used for “citizens” in the Declaration of Independence.